Device for facilitating the use of a can containing evaporated milk or the like



Feb. 27, 1934. v VAVEREK ET AL 1,948,997

DEVICE FOR FACILITATING THE USE OF'A' CAN CONTAINING EVAPORATED MILK ORTHE LIKE Filed July 12, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet l I ll0 rney Inventor Feb.27, 1934.

v. VAVEREK El AL DEVICE FOR FACILITATING THE USE OF A CAN CONTAININGEVAPORATED MILK OR THE LIKE Filed July 12, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet 2Inventors Patented Feb. 27, 1 :r

DEVICE FOR FACILITATING THE USE OF A CAN CGNTA'INING EVAPOBATED MILK OBTHELEE' Vincent Vaverek and Joseph Heline, Pontiac. Mich.

Application an: 12. ms. Serial No. seam The present invention relates toa device for facilitating the use of a can of evaporated milk or thelike and has for its prime object to provide means in which may bemounted a can of B evaporated milk or the like and permit the milk to bepoured from the can in a handy manner.

Another'very important object of the invention resides in the provisionof a device of this nature with means for punching the proper holes inthecan.

A further important object of the invention resides in the provision ofa device of this nature which is simple in its construction, inexpensiveto manufacture, easy to manipulate, attractive in appearance, fairlyeflicient and reliable in use and otherwise well-adapted for the purposefor which it is designed.

With the above and numerous other objects in view, as will appear as thedescription proaoceeds, the invention consists in certain novel featuresof construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts as willbe hereinafter more fully described and claimed. In the drawings:-Figure 1 is a side elevation of a device embodying the features of myinvention,

Figure 2 is a top plan view thereof, showing the lid in open positio I1Figure 3 is a vertical section through the deao v ce,

Figure 4 is a fragmentary sectional elevation of the upper portion ofthe device, showing the lid partially open. Referring to the drawings indetail, it will be as seen that numeral denotes a containerpreferabiyshaped in simulation of a pitcher and having a handle 6.Numeral 7 denotes a lid hingedly mounted, as at 8,"on the container 5.This lid 'Hs provided-with a flange 9 rising from the lid and flaringoutwardly and having a portion thereof formed into a spout 10. A guardand reinforcing ring 11 depends from the lid to telescope into theupper'end of the container and to be disposed about the can 12 in thecontainer and assist in properly centering the can with respect to thelid, so that the holes in the top of the can will be punched in theproper place. Depending from the. lid 7 are cutting elemfi s 1A and 15for punching holes in the top of the can. The so element 15 is disposedadjacent the hinge 8. while the element 14 is disposed adjacent thespent 10.

These elements are of a somewhat U-shaped formatlon, as shown in-Flgure2. and include side walls .a and bight'portion b, the bight portion gbeingprovidedwithacuttinsedscandthe edges of the sides a being inclined,as is clearly shown in Figure 3. The lid 7 is provided with'openings 16and 17 registering with thespaces confined by the cutting elements.

The can'is placed in the container 5 and then the lid is closed and asit is closed, the cutting elements 14 and .15 punch the necessary holesin the can. The hole punched by the element 14 is the pouring hole,while the hole punched by the element 15 is the vent hole. fully closed,the milk from the can may be poured by using the device in a mannersimilar to an ordinary pitcher.

It is thought that the construction, utility and advantages ofthis'invention will now be clearly understood to those skilled in thisart without a more detailed description thereof. v

The present embodiment of theinventionhas been described in considerabledetail merely for the purposes of exempliiication, since in actual 7|practice it attains the features of advantage enumerated as desirable inthe statement of the. invention and the above description.

It will be apparent that changes in the details of construction, and inthe combination andar- '80 rangement of parts may be resorted to withoutdeparting from the-spirit or scope ofthe invention as hereinafterclaimed or sacrificing any of its advantages.

7 Having thus claim as new is:-

A device of-the class described comprising an open top container forreceiving a can, a iiat lid for the container, an annularringdependingfrom the lid to telescope inside the upper end of the containerand to be disposedabout the upper end of a can in thecontainer, saidring being slightly spaced inwardly from the periphery of the lid andsaid lid having a pair of openings therein arranged diametricallyopposite each other and spaced inwardly from the ring, a pair, ofcutting elements depending from the lid adiacent the openings, a flangerising from the lid. a hinge connecting a part of the flange to a partof the container, a portion of the flange forming a spout which islocated diametrically opposite the hinge, said spout receiving theliquid flowing from that opening which'is remote from the hinge, theother opening being located adjacent that part of the flange to-whichthe hinge is connected. VINCENT VAVEREK.

JOSEPH When the cover is 05 Y described our invention, what we 55

